Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are other types of underground Germans - the thousands of homeless . . . who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkoller (bunker frenzy)" [TIME, April...
...metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write...
...parliamentary elections earlier in the week, Hertzog's moderate democrats had achieved their long-sought majority. But at the same time the Movement of Nationalist Revolution, the totalitarian-type party whose leaders were driven underground with the lynching of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel in 1946, took a new lease on life. The M.N.R. elected nine deputies, and its candidates ran second in many districts of the country. On election night its partisans tangled with pro-Hertzog paraders under the lampposts in La Paz' Plaza Murillo, where Villaroel had been hanged. By the time the government got things...
...find any chunks of meteorite, nor could he prove conclusively that the hole was made by a meteor. But all signs indicated that it was. There were no volcanic materials in the vicinity, and the strata around the rim seemed to be tilted upward as if from an underground explosion...
...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...